There will inevitably be murmurings about foul play in the death of Boris
Berezovsky. Yet it is far more plausible that he took his own life. The man
who once freely wandered the halls of the Kremlin, and who boasted that he
and six fellow oligarchs controlled half of Russia’s economy, was facing
ruin.

Not just financially — although the exiled tycoon had plenty of money
troubles. The humiliating loss of the Abramovich case last year left Mr
Berezovsky with a legal bill estimated at £70 million. He received some
money from the settlement of a long-running dispute with the family